Flash Coffee

Flash Coffee taps ex-Foodpanda CEO in turnaround bid

AFTER a rough couple of years, tech-enabled coffee chain Flash Coffee has hired former Foodpanda CEO Jakob Angele as its executive chairman in a bid to hit profitability.

Turn Capital partners (from left) Shang Koo, Ho Kheng Lian and Joseph Phua are targeting deals in the consumer and technology sectors.

Turn Capital eyes more undervalued assets after Flash Coffee Thailand buyout

TURN Capital, the firm started by the co-founder of live-streaming operator 17Live, has raised its maiden fund to invest in business turnarounds in the consumer and technology sectors.

Flash Coffee is being wound up in Taiwan and Singapore, and has sold off its business in Thailand to focus on other markets, such as Indonesia.

Flash Coffee in major consolidation amid Taiwan bankruptcy, sale of Thailand unit

FLASH Coffee has retreated from several markets, three years after it raised funding and started blitzscaling across Asia.

Indonesian coffee chain Kopi Kenangan's president-director James Prananto (left) with CEO and co-founder Edward Tirtanata. The company recently opened two stores in Singapore.

Indonesia’s top coffee chains bullish about Singapore expansion in crowded market

[JAKARTA] The chiefs of Fore Coffee and Kopi Kenangan – two major coffee players in Indonesia that recently expanded to Singapore – remain confident they can succeed there, even after the surprise clo...

Tech investors have poured US$373 million into South-east Asia’s coffee chains, resulting in them growing explosively in their home countries and expanding into Singapore.

Battle of brews: After Flash Coffee, who’s who in the fight for coffee supremacy in Singapore

Competition is brewing as Singapore is poised to become the next battleground for a wave of tech-enabled coffee chains

The Jurong Point outlet was closed when The Business Times visited on Friday morning. The "ON STRIKE" notice that appeared in a TikTok video was not there.

Flash Coffee’s Singapore business shutters, files for winding up

THE Singapore unit of coffee chain Flash Coffee has shuttered its outlets and filed for a voluntary winding-up, The Business Times (BT) has found.